Spanish Hoops Squad Takes Its Eyes Off the Ball
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How do you ingratiate yourself into a foreign culture? Take a photo mocking the way they look!
The Spanish national basketball team, gold medal contenders at the Olympics in Beijing, was featured in a full page ad that shows the team pulling back at their eyes in a slanty-eyed gesture. According to the Guardian, the ad (which is for a freight company) ran in a Spanish newspaper.
An e-mail to the Spanish Basketball Federation was not immediately returned.